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Thursday, December 31, 2015

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Copyrite attorney $650 an hour

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Mike Bierman

July 13

This will answer basic and inevitable copyright questions (RECYCLED from my posts):

Time for my annual "book" post on copyright, because no matter how many times this information is given, no one bothers to take notes or read it until they know it. Plus, the law is IN FLUX and changes constantly. Here we go again: This should be in the pinned posts, and has been thoroughly discussed.
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You do not even get into federal court on a copyright action w/o filing for copyright. Also, if the infraction occurs BEFORE the filing for copyright (e.g. you find out about the problem/theft, THEN file) you CANNOT get STATUTORY DAMAGES, costs or attorneys fees, which effectively GUTS your action. So let's say your actual damages are $5,000. Even if you win under this scenario, that's ALL YOU WILL GET. And you will spend FIFTY times that to get there. (YES -- typical cost is around $250,000 for a copyright case). That's why you MUST file for copyright before the FIRST time you give your work to ANYONE.
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WGA charges $20 and gives you ZERO protection. It is SOME evidence of when a work was completed, but little else. A file with each writing date saved separately for each writing day in software's file format does far more to prove authorship than WGA registration, and costs nothing. You should always do this anyway. The WGA reg only guy doesn't even get into court. $35 for the real copyright (which IS EXACTLY what "LOC"=Library of Congress means -- they are identical), coupled with your own meticulous records offer the BEST protection. Copyright should be filed BEFORE YOU SHOW YOUR WORK TO ANYONE for maximum protection as aforementioned.
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So, copyright offers your only protection, and only costs $15.00 more than essentially giving your money to WGA for nothing. The WGA reg MAY be useful for a credit dispute as to who should get what level of authorship, but that is internal to WGA and is NOT a copyright. Frankly, this has been discussed ad nauseum and the correct answer never changes. While new members come in all the time, they should check pinned posts, and old members have already had this question answered many times.
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In addition to the basic rule that you MUST copyright your stuff, is the rule which everyone likes to laugh off and make fun of. That is the NDA. Without an NDA, your idea can be stolen straight out of your submission, and you lose you opportunity to argue for a DESNY cause of action that you should have been paid for provision of the idea. This narrows the scope of your remedies dramatically. Nothing like starting behind the eight ball. See THE PURGE/UTA case for the gruesome details.
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Remember, a typical copyright action costs $250,000+ and lawyers will not likely take it on a contingency basis unless you are famous/rich writer with a long track history of making big bucks. Thus, YOU will be paying the money out of your pocket on a CHANCE to win. The thief only needs to show that 30% of the screenplay at issue is different, and you LOSE, even if it is obvious or admitted the other 70% was stolen. An NDA gives the reason why a script was submitted and is an enforceable contract that will give ADDITIONAL remedies on top of the copyright action. While it may be very difficult to get someone to sign an NDA, without it, you are at much greater risk.
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Also troublesome are the transformational copyright theories, as mentioned in the 30% example, above. Someone could take PICTURES of your script, doodle or write in the margins, and call it ART. There is support and some precedent, even very recently, for this being ALLOWED, believe it or not.
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Remember, the studios/production companies have fought these actions and have a stable of high-end lawyers to chew you up, delay, and minimize your claim. You are the little guy with no money beating against the door to be let in. Protect yourself as much UP FRONT and you may make it easier for them to just pay you, the likely unknown writer the relatively small sum to actually legally buy the work instead of steal it. If you actually do bring a copyright action, you will probably be BLACKBALLED. That is, even if you were 100% CORRECT and righteously WIN, no one will ever read your shit again, because they know you may be litigious. If they do, they will require you to sign all kinds of things which say your work has essentially ZERO value, and you agree to that before submitting/reading. The big guys have EVERY advantage even if you do everything right, so why do anything wrong and make it even worse? PAY THE $35 and register immediately upon completion. Minor changes made later (typo fixed, etc.) do NOT require a new filing, as long as the work is substantially the same.
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Further complicating this is if your work is passed along or the players change due to firing/hiring or company acquisition (See the GRAVITY case, where the original author of the book got screwed).
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If you roll the dice and proceed without the NDA, you must at the very least have a PRE-FILED copyright. The date of AWARD of the copyright will REFER BACK to the date of filing if it is granted, so you DO NOT have to wait to get the copyright certificate in the mail to send your work out. You just need to file. The certs are taking up to EIGHT months to come in right now, and that's if you did everything right. Remember, a tricky part of the website is properly categorizing your to-be-registered work. It is a WORK FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS. Do NOT use the other categories, as they are wrong, and may delay or deny granting of the copyright application.
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I may put up a link that says everything I just wrote by another lawyer if I can find it, but this should be sufficient.
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Finally, don't even THINK about bringing up "Poor Man's copyright." This is the name for MAILING yourself your work, receiving it and leaving it unopened in the postmarked envelope. IT DOES NOT WORK, and I have never found a case in which it has. Don't bother.
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There is no way to cheat your way around registration for US COPYRIGHT, and anyone that tells you differently has no clue. Every other move you make to protect yourself is great, but is supplementary to the registration. There are no shortcuts. Sorry.

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ZZZZZZZZ drum solo

Say? hear dat thing , I hear something, going round and round,

Pounding, pounding, pounding, pound after pound…

say: what's that sound? My ears are on fire! I know that sound!

It's sneakers in the dryer!

Sounds like driving on a flat tire, it has to be sneakers in the dryer!

You may not believe me,

Don't call me a liar,

it is most def sneakers in the dryer.....

Though it’s got a certain beat, it ain’t no choir,

it ain’t anything but sneakers in a dryer....

The sound got louder, and things are dire,

I just can’t take no more sneakers in the dryer....

I ran down the stairs, fast as light, strong as fire, yelling stop ! Stop those sneakers in the dryer!"

I pounded down and found my way in....I got to the machine pulled out the wire,

that stopped the sound-

no more sneakers in the dryer.
copyright@2014

Monday, December 28, 2015

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Saturday, October 24, 2015

status futuro stardate 6666

All my exes are dead and I'm the last man (woman) standing and I like it
its hard being immortal, but I've accomplished so much
and there's so much more to do
if life is purposeful, then by all means go on,
and I do mean on and on.
I'm sick of sexbots, however,
that will require further investigaion
Cheers
Nobot

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

To CERN or Dis CERN?

We predict that gravity can leak into extra dimensions, and if it does, then miniature black holes can be produced at the LHC.'
He said: 'Normally, when people think of the multiverse, they think of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, where every possibility is actualised.

The Cern theoreticians say this could give clear signs of dimensions beyond length, breadth, depth and time.
At such high energy gravity many be even tracked disappearing into them.
Parallel universes can exist within these dimensions, the theory goes, but only gravity can leave our universe into these extra dimensions.
If extra dimensions do exist, experts believe they would lower the energy required to produce black holes.
Professor Faizal said in March that the reason these black holes have yet to be detected is because our current model of gravity gets modified at very high energies.
According to Phys.org, in the latest study, the new theory of gravity's rainbow has been used to account for why the LHC has not yet found tiny black holes.
Einstein's theory of relativity states that gravity is caused by space and time curving.
Gravity's rainbow says that space and time curve differently for particles of different energy.
So, gravity's rainbow suggests that gravity's effect on the cosmos causes different wavelengths of light to behave differently.

Saturday, October 17, 2015

Officially Recognized Cyborg UK

Neil Harbisson is

first person on the planet to have a passport photo that shows his cyborg nature — in his UK passport, he's wearing a head-mounted device called an eyeborg. The color-blind artist says the eyeborg allows him to see color, and he wants to help other cyborgs like himself gain more rights.

Anyone who has ever gotten a passport photo knows Harbisson has accomplished something that once seemed bureaucratically impossible. Other people with cyborg headgear, like Steve Mann, have had their gear forcibly removed and been refused entrance into buildings for wearing devices on their heads. But with a passport photo that shows the eyeborg as part of Harbisson's face, it will be harder for people to argue that his eyeborg is an optional accessory, like a camera or a hat. And somebody trying to take his augmentation off could be committing a violent crime equivalent to injuring his face.

Dezeen has a fascinating interview with Harbisson, where he talks about how his body adapted to the device he now thinks of as an integral part of himself.

Harbisson was born with a condition called achromatopsia, which means he sees everything in shades of gray. It's kind of like watching the world go by on a black-and-white monitor when everybody else has full color HD screens. He's missing out on safety cues like the color of traffic lights, but more importantly he felt like he was missing an aesthetic sense of his environment. As an artist, he's acutely aware of how aesthetics affect people's moods and behavior — and so, nearly a decade ago, he set out to augment himself to see what other people see.

The result is that he sees in a way that nobody has seen before. His eyeborg attachment converts colors around him into soundwaves, which are transmitted to his inner ear via a vibration mechanism on the back of his skull. Essentially, Harbisson hears and feels colors:

Each colour has a specific frequency that I can hear because of the Eyeborg. Infrared is the lowest sound and ultraviolet is the highest sound. I hear them through bone conduction. Basically, the sound goes to the back of the head and then my inner ear hears the different sine waves.

The first person in the world to become a government-recognized cyborg

Harbisson felt that the device was fully integrated into his sense of self when he began to have emotional responses to colors in his environment. He also says that he "dreams" of color. Certain faces and buildings are particularly musical for him — their combinations of tones and colors create sounds that Harbisson finds pleasing. At last, he has the aesthetic sense he wanted. The most interesting part is that his sense of a pleasing color palette is inevitably going to be different from a person who sees color with his or her eyes.

And he's planning to make his eyeborg an even more integrated part of himself, by charging it using his own body motions:

I have like a USB-like connector that I put at the back of the head which allows me to plug myself in to the mains. I take three hours to charge myself and then I can go usually three or four days, but the aim is not to use electricity. One of the next stages is to find a way of charging the chip with my own body energy, so I might be using blood circulation or my kinetic energy - or maybe the energy of my brain could charge the chip in the future. That's one of the next things; to be able to charge the chip without depending on any external energy.

Bone inputs may be the wave of the future when it comes to sense augmentation. Already, cochlear implants make use of a similar kind of interface. Harbisson speculates about what may come next for cyborgs:

Having a bone input gives us a sense that doesn't block any other senses, so I think this gives us a lot of options. Also, just having sensors at the back of our body is something you can do simply with very simple technology. This enables you to have some sort of sense of what's behind you. Also, what we'd like to see is people using small, infrared sensors that vibrate so you know when there's someone behind which creates a 360 degree perception. Then there's other things such as orientation. Having a small compass implanted that vibrates whenever you face north could help a lot.

In the meantime, we need our social and political values to catch up with the technology. Harbisson founded the Cyborg Foundation to help other citizen cyborgs like himself protect their rights.

Read more, and see more pictures, at Dezeen.

Photos by Dan Wilton.

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VictimofcreamAnnalee Newitz
12/02/13 6:15pm

The question arises as to whether its actually connected to his body or not, otherwise taking that off him is kinda like knocking mans hat off.

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RichardAnnalee Newitz
12/02/13 6:19pm

This sounds like a sort of induced synesthesia! Hearing/feeling colours. Pretty good. It would be interesting to know if he has talked/worked with someone who does have synesthesia.

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ClioAnnalee Newitz
12/02/13 6:37pm

"Don't even try telling me you're the first cyborg, bro."

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BadWolf359Annalee Newitz
12/02/13 6:50pm

This is cool, no doubt...but in a way, is it any different from someone wearing glasses? Couldn't a person who wears glasses be considered a cyborg, in a way?

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AdxLibAnnalee Newitz
12/02/13 6:51pm

This amazes me on so many levels. Delightful. :)

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